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Reflection

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As an industrial design student, my discipline often requires me to mock up models of things to present to a client to accompany a concept. These mock- ups are usually done in card, or foam or anything else that is easy to manipulate into shape quickly. As such, using metal is not often a medium for the models that we make. With the technological advancements that we have made in the past couple of years as well, this discipline often turns to rapid prototyping through laser cutting and 3D printing. Metal forming is often a lost skill. As a jewellery student, however, I have worked with shaping and bending metal before, albeit on a much smaller scale. For example, these are a series of rings I was making a few weeks ago. Because the tray took me six damn attempts to make, and I've kept 4 copies of it, in this reflection, I'll take a look at the challenges, difficulties and issues with this part of the assignment 1 and how the skills I've gathered throughout the semes
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FINAL PRODUCT PHOTOS

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T O G E T H E R I N D I V I D U A L
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FUEL TANK: THE MAKING OF

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Go make a cuppa and get a stress ball because if you're anything like me, you will probably also stress yourself out reading this post. P A R T   O N E:  D I V I S I O N So we now have our fuel tank model, and we needed to divide it up into three sections of equal difficulty for the team. We went through a few iterations. They both had one section which seemed easier than the other two or was impossible to do, so we settled on one which seemed the most even. So essentially we divided it up in a way where the top was a blister and in theory, the two sides were bent metal. We began by marking around the height of the model to 16 cm so that we were able to get it into nice even sections. Stuck a pen in foam at the height of 16 to mark around the model.  After that we drew straws and I got to do section 3. P A R T   T W O:  P A T T E R N   M A K I N G If my year 8 textiles class was any indication of my pattern making skills, we are all in for a really bad t
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FUEL TANK: TEMPLATE CREATION

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This post is so long, it may as well be a 10 part Greek tragedy with some pre-cinema version of end-credit scenes sprinkled on top it. I'm not trying to put you off from reading it, I'm just saying, maybe make yourself a cuppa before you start because you're going to be here for a hella long time. P A R T   O N E:  T E C H N I C A L   D I F F I C U L T I E S MEETING DATE: 02/05/2018 Right, so last week, I had hoped that the guys would have the Rhino files opened and exported to an .stl file so I would be able to explore 3D printing a mini version (to help us divide up the sections) and to explore options to CNC the fuel tank (which would act as a dolly to metal form against). However, it turns out there were issues in regards to the actual file of the fuel tank. It was not my area of expertise so I stepped back a lot in this meeting to let the guys who actually knew what they were doing take charge. I actually feel kind of bad because they were taking so long and i
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FUEL TANK: PLANNING PROCESS

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P A R T  O N E:  G R O U P   F O R M A T I O N LADIES LET'S GET IN FORMATION We're not as cool as Beyonce but we did manage to get a group together. Amazing. So cool. Very sophisticated.  The members of the team consisted of the following: Benjamin Le (Industrial Design) Jeremy Hizkia (Industrial Design) Jin Son (Industrial Design)  Kelvin Ip (Architecture) Lornia Shi (Industrial Design) Natalia Dou (Interior Architecture)  Tauqir Ullah (Industrial Design) Zeran Wang (Industrial Design) Zoey Song (Architecture From there we decided we would do the custom fuel tank (by Andrew Wallace) for several reasons: Utilise the Rhino skills of our members We had done a similar exercise in Industrial design where we took photos of certain products to create an online drawing and it was a personal nightmare and I absolutely refuse to do that again unless necessary.  It seemed more convenient Had a good multiplier (let's be honest here I'm a uni student I w
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